DRGW K27 #463 with a train of stock cars passes Cresco Tank Cresco, CO 10/4/16 as part of the 2016 Fall Photo Freight from the Friends of the Cumbres and Toltec.

DRGW K27 #463 with a train of stock cars, entering the narrows outside Chama, NM 10/4/16. This is from the 2016 Fall Photo Freight of the Friends of the Cumbres and Toltec.

DRGW K27 #463 with a train of stock cars, passing Jukes Tree Chama, NM 10/4/16. This is from the 2016 Fall Photo Freight of the Friends of the Cumbres and Toltec. We were fortunate to have incre... (more)

The Friends of the Cumbres and Toltec hosted a two day 2016 Fall Photo Freight October 4th and 5th, 2016 with a variety of power, locations, etc. The first day began with DRGW K27 #463, a 1903 Ba... (more)

Nose to nose in Silverton. On a beautiful summer evening in Silverton, Colorado, two different classes of Denver & Rio Grande Western steam locomotives sit nose to nose in the yard at aroun... (more)

Fall Splendor at the Water Tank

D&RGW 489 is taking water on a brilliant Fall sunrise in Chama, NM.

The Battle for the Pass has Begun.

Through 4-5’ of deep snow Denver & Rio Grande Western OY rotary steam powered snow plow is in full battle for the pass. Gently falling lar... (more)

Snow Fighting to Colorado

Near the Colorado state line the Rotary OY is in full battle with snow with 2-8-2 #487 and #484 pushing.

RGS Twenty

The return of Rio Grande Southern #20 on the Trains Magazine with Jim Wrinn and the Colorado Railroad Museum photo spectacular Aug 1st was a sell out exciting an... (more)

Switching at "No Agua" Rio Grande Southern #20's coming out party was a great success. Here we see #20 backing down to couple to a short freight at "No Agua" tank duri... (more)

Rio Grande Southern #20 is on stage at the Colorado Railroad Museum for its comeback from a lengthy thorough restoration.

Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad’s Rotary snowplow OY removes some snow through a curve above Dalton, New Mexico, on the afternoon of February 29, 2020. Rio Grande caboose No. 0306 carries the m... (more)

Big country, little train. A stock train crosses the Rio de los Piños on a wood pile trestle at milepost 324.52 on its climb up Cumbres Pass. From a 2011 Lerro Productions charter.

D&RGW #485 - in reality #489 re-numbered to play the part of the only non-surviving K-36 class - leads its freight train around the final loop of "Tanglefoot Curve, just below Cumbres Pass. Short... (more)

A mixed freight train is headed upgrade, timetable westbound headed for Cumbres Pass. In this view, we see the train partway up "Tanglefoot Curve" with levels visible both above and bel... (more)